Emma Hartke

I am a Ph.D. Student in the Freeman Lab pursuing my dual-title degree in Geoscience and Climate Science. My current research uses biogeochemical tools (including lipid biomarkers, molecular isotope analyses, carbonate clumped isotope analyses) to reconstruct past climate conditions in the Mediterranean, which will improve models of future climate change in this acutely sensitive region.

I graduated from Penn State in 2022 with an M.S. in Geoscience. My Ph.D. work is a continuation of my M.S. thesis, which used lipid biomarker distributions (n-alkanes and PAHs) from a Holocene paleolake catchment to examine landscape change as a result of human and environmental influence. This work is being prepared for publication.

I graduated from the University of Iowa in 2020 with a B.S. in Geoscience. My undergraduate research thesis involved using stable isotope geochemistry to collect ultra high-resolution data on a Silurian biogeochemical event. This thesis was published in Global and Planetary Change in 2021.